Quotes About Equality

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

War is not women's history.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself